Hello to Ron and Bill & Diane This is really exciting as both your messages have filled in quite a few little points I have been chasing for years! I checked and I think Ron is correct and that you are both talking about the same Christian (Christina) Ross. I can add a little to Ron's information - Catherine Ross who married Alexander Murray, daughter of Alexander Ross and Marian Calder, and granddaughter of John Ross and Euphemia Murray died on 12 May 1878 in West Zorra, Ontario. I have quite a bit of information on this family and will be happy to pass it on by email if you (or any other interested party) wish to see it. I have been corresponding for many years with a descendant in Ontario. You may recall in earlier messages that I was searching for an Alexander Calder who married Ann Grant and left Dornoch for Zorra in the early 1830's. I have full information on Ann but nothing on Alexander. I now wonder if Marian Calder may be a sister of 'my' Alexander? Anyone any further information on the Calders? Following Alexander Calder's early death in Zorra Ann Grant then married an Alexander Sutherland - Bill and Diane have a Sutherland in their information - did they have an Alexander? A very large party left the Dornoch area around the same time for Canada and the Catherine Ross and Alexander Murray family were part of this group. I believe my Alexander Calder and Ann Grant were also. Would be fun to follow this through. Best wishes Christine chris@northants26.freeserve.co.uk Highland Hearts http://www.highlandhearts.com/ -----Original Message----- From: J. Ronald Patrick [mailto:rpatrick@niagara.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 10:25 PM To: SCT-SUTHERLAND-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [SCT-SUT] GEDDES/ROSS Is this the same Christian Ross in the following family sheet? Certianly seems possible. Ron Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario Canada L0S 1J0 Descendants of John Ross Generation No. 1 1. JOHN1 ROSS was born Bet. 1750 - 1760. He married EUPHEMIA 'EFFIE' MURRAY. Children of JOHN ROSS and EUPHEMIA MURRAY are: 2. i. ALEXANDER2 ROSS, b. Abt. 1780, Proncy, Dornoch, Dornoch Parish, Sutherland, Scotland. 3. ii. JOHN ROSS, b. July 13, 1786, Dornoch, Sutherland, Scotland; d. January 20, 1858, Sliasdary, Creich, Sutherland, Scotland. iii. CHRISTIAN ROSS, b. April 21, 1790, Little Torboll, Dornoch, Sutherland, Scotland. Generation No. 2 2. ALEXANDER2 ROSS (JOHN1) was born Abt. 1780 in Proncy, Dornoch, Dornoch Parish, Sutherland, Scotland. He married MARRION 'MARY ANN' CALDER July 21, 1797 in Dornoch, Dornoch Parish, Sutherland, Scotland. Children of ALEXANDER ROSS and MARRION CALDER are: i. CATHERINE3 ROSS, b. April 29, 1798, Proncy, Dornoch, Dornoch Parish, Sutherland, Scotland; d. Oxford Co., Ontario?; m. ALEXANDER MURRAY, March 30, 1821, Dornoch, Sutherland, Scotland. ii. JOHN ROSS, b. June 6, 1805, Proncy, Dornoch Parish, Scotland; d. February 16, 1878, Ardshave, Dornoch Parish, Sutherland, Scotland. Age 71.; m. CHRISTINA 'CHRISTY' MACKAY, February 1, 1850, Evelix, Dornoch, Sutherland, Scotland. iii. EFFY ROSS, b. October 30, 1808, Proncy, Dornoch, Dornoch Parish, Sutherland, Scotland. 3. JOHN2 ROSS (JOHN1) was born July 13, 1786 in Dornoch, Sutherland, Scotland, and died January 20, 1858 in Sliasdary, Creich, Sutherland, Scotland. Child of JOHN ROSS is: i. JOHN3 ROSS. -----Original Message----- From: Bill & Diane Geddes [mailto:bgeddes@ameritech.net] Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 10:02 AM To: SCT-SUTHERLAND-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [SCT-SUT] GEDDES/ROSS Searching for information on Alexander GEDDES and Christian ROSS who married in Dornoch on December 31, 1819. Christian/Christy was born in 1790 in Sutherlandshire; Alexander was born in Morayshire in 1784. They had four boys; John who died at birth; William, b. 1822; Alexander who died at age 28; and Robert, b. 1830. Christian/Christy and son Alexander are buried in Dornoch East Cemetery. Father Alexander and sons William and Robert went to Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada, where William married Ann SUTHERLAND and Robert married Ann McPHERSON. Thank you for any information. ==== SCT-SUTHERLAND Mailing List ==== You may, at times, wish to check out previous messages to this list. You can do this at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/SCT-SUTHERLAND-L/ ============================== Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.237 / Virus Database: 115 - Release Date: 3/7/01 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.237 / Virus Database: 115 - Release Date: 3/7/01